Cisco UCS X410c M7 vs Dell PowerEdge R960
Side-by-side specifications from the vendors' own documents. The Cisco UCS X410c M7 is a 4-socket modular compute node designed for the Cisco UCS X9508 Chassis. The Dell PowerEdge R960 is an enterprise 4U rack server powered by 4 Intel Xeon Scalable 4th Gen and 5th Gen (up to 4 processors, 350W TDP) and 64 memory slots supporting up to 16384GB DDR5-4800 / DDR5-5600 RDIMM.
| Cisco UCS X410c M7 | Dell PowerEdge R960 | |
|---|---|---|
| Brand | Cisco | Dell |
| Status | current | current |
| Released | Jan 2023 | Apr 2023 |
| Form factor | modular | 4U rack |
| Processor | Up to 4x 4th or 5th Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors up to 64 cores each (up to 350W TDP) | — |
| Memory | 64x DDR5 DIMM slots supporting up to 16TB DDR5-5600 | — |
| Drive bays | Up to 6x front-accessible 2.5-inch SAS/SATA/NVMe SSDs plus dual internal M.2 boot drives | Up to 32x 2.5-inch SAS/SATA/NVMe drives |
| Mezzanine slots | Dual mLOM slots plus mezzanine slots for Cisco VIC 15000 series adapters | — |
| Network | Multiple Cisco UCS VIC adapters delivering up to 200Gbps unified fabric connectivity | — |
| Chassis compatibility | Cisco UCS X9508 Chassis (occupies 2 node slots; up to 4 nodes per chassis) | — |
| Management | Cisco Intersight | — |
| Cpu sockets | — | 4 |
| Cpu platform | — | Intel Xeon Scalable 4th Gen and 5th Gen (up to 4 processors, 350W TDP) |
| Memory slots | — | 64 |
| Memory type | — | DDR5-4800 / DDR5-5600 RDIMM |
| Memory max (GB) | — | 16,384 |
| Pcie slots | — | Up to 12 PCIe Gen5 slots |
| Gpu support | — | Up to 4x 350W double-wide GPUs or 8x 75W single-wide GPUs |
| Network onboard | — | OCP 3.0 slot; 1x 1GbE iDRAC dedicated port |
| Power supply | — | Quad redundant hot-plug 1100W, 1400W, 1800W, 2400W or 2800W Titanium |
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